Hoe.



No. 892,607. PATENTED JULY 7, 1908.

' B. R. WILLIAMS.

HOE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.18. 1908.

. 6 i'Juoentoz UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BENJAMIN R. WILLIAMS, OF ENGLISH, ARKANSAS, ASSIGNOR TO WILLIAM B. REILY, OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.

HOE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 7, 1908.

Application filed March 18, 1908. Serial No. 421,844.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN R. WIL- LIAMS, a citizen of the United States, residing at English, in the county of Jefferson and State of Arkansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hoes, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has relation to im rovements in hoes generally, but is especia ly intended as an improvement in my hoe, which was patented by the U. S; Patent Office, Feb. 11, 1908, Serial No. 878,920, and consists in providing one or both of the upper corners of a hoe with an auxiliary blade, or providing the upper part of the hoe with an auxiliary blade that reaches all the way across said hoe-blade, terminating at each corner in upturned auxiliary blades.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1, is a perspective view of a hoe, showing one of my auxiliary blades attached to the righthand corner of a hoe. Fig. 2, is a perspective view, showing one of my auxiliary blades attached to the lefthand corner of the hoe. Fig. 3, is a pers ective view of an attachment, reaching a l the way across the upper part of a hoe-blade, terminating at each end with an upturned auxiliary blade. Figs. 4, 5 and 6 are detail views. Fig. 7, is a form of the device in which the auxiliary cutting edges are formed integral with the blade.

Instead of having the said auxiliary blades secured to the upper art of the hoe-blade, said blade and auxi iary blades may be struck out in one piece, and the auxiliary blades may be integral with the hoe-blade.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, my invention is described as follows In the accompanying drawings, the numeral 1 represents the hoe-blade provided with a lower cutting edge; 2, the handle; 3, an auxiliary blade, secured to the right-hand corner of the hoe-blade, its cuttin edge being straight; 4, re resents an auxiliary blade secured to the left-hand corner of the hoeblade, its cutting edge being slightly concave;

5, represents a bar, secured to the upper part of the hoe-blade, terminating at each end in upturned auxiliary blades 6.

The figures marked with the numerals 7, 8 and 9, represent the various shapes in which the auxiliary blades may be made; in fact, the blades may be of such size and construction as will enable the user to readily remove sprouts, weeds, grass, etc., in which case each blade may be particularly constructed for the use intended.

I may, for certain pur oses, use only one auxiliary bladeon the rig it-hand upper corner of the hoe-blade, and for certain other purposes I may use only one auxiliary blade on the upper left-hand corner of the hoeblade, and for certain other purposes I may use a bar, extending all the way across the upper part of the blade, each end of said bar terminating in an upwardly extending auxiliary blade, or I may use the two blades 6, which may be integral with the hoe-blade.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a hoe, a blade provided with a lower cutting edge and with a forwardly extending cutting edge integral with the blade and arranged at one of the upper corners thereof and diagonally thereto.

2. In a hoe, a blade provided with a lower cutting edge and with a forwardly extending cutting edge arranged at one of the upper corners thereof and diagonally thereto.

3. In a hoe, a blade provided with a lower cutting edge and with forwardly extending cutting edges separated from each other and arranged at the upper corners of the blade and diagonally thereto.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

BENJAMIN R. WILLIAMS.

I/Vitnesses:

R. R. DUFFIE, BELLE C. TROTT. 

